• Randi Youells, LSC Vice-President for Programs, Honors Diversity Leaders in Virginia

• LSC Announces the Availability of Facilitators to Train LSC Funded Programs' Boards of Directors in Diversity, Inclusion, and Leadership

• Register to Attend CORT's 2003 Technology Conference entitled "Remote Access Methods and Strategies" in Columbus, Ohio on August 21-22
  

• South Brooklyn Legal Services' Foreclosure Prevention Project

South Brooklyn Legal Services (SBLS) created the Foreclosure Prevention Project (FPP) to provide outreach, education, and legal services to low-income people who are at risk of losing their home to foreclosure. SBLS does screening for intake through a foreclosure hotline staffed by bilingual advocates. In addition to litigating in state and federal court, SBLS helped to create a City-Wide Foreclosure Prevention Task Force (FPTF) through which partner agencies can make referrals as well as share information on predatory lending.

• Judicial Council of California’s Access Protocol

The Judicial Council of California, the policy-making body for the California state courts, has adopted an “Access Protocol” to increase access to justice for unrepresented litigants in the courts. A fundamental piece of that protocol is that the courts will seek comment from the legal services community before implementing any new initiatives, to ensure there is not undue impact on access to justice.

• Legal Aid of North Carolina's Witness for Justice Project

The Farm Worker Unit of Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC) implemented the Witness for Justice Project to educate volunteers about the living and working conditions of migrant farm workers while also supporting farm workers' rights to receive visitors in employer owned labor camps. Witness for Justice was modeled from the human rights Witness for Peace program and uses volunteer observers to raise public consciousness of the poverty and hardship faced by migrant farm workers.

• LSC Convenes Summit on Performance Measures: Assessing Quality and Measuring Results

The Legal Services Corporation, together with the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Clinic and the Bellows-Sacks Access to Civil Legal Services Project at Harvard Law School, convened a Summit on Performance Measures: Assessing Quality and Measuring Results. Thirty-two people attended the summit, including program executive directors, national leaders, funders, representatives of the courts and several leaders of legal services in the United Kingdom. Access the papers presented at the Summit as well as the agenda and list of persons in attendance.

• We encourage you to submit information about projects at your legal services program. Submitting projects to LRI is easy. Complete our submission form and an LSC staff member will contact you for additional information.
  

• How are you supporting economic development efforts in your community? The LSC Resource Library is looking for CED projects and strategies that could be replicated by other legal services programs. In each issue of eNews, we will identify an area that we feel would be beneficial for research due to a lack of accessible information. We strongly encourage you to make suggestions to us for future areas of inquiry.